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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 12:00 AM

House Democrats prioritize loyalty to the president over their own judgment

A primary criticism of the GOP Congress was excessive loyalty to the president. Has that changed in the Obama era?
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Wednesday, June 17, 2009 11:23 AM

    Senator Obama would not have approved

    Instead, what we have is a flawed document that in fact betrays the best instincts of some of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle - those who worked in a bipartisan fashion in the Armed Services Committee to craft a bill that we could have been proud of. And they essentially got steamrolled by this Administration and by the imperatives of November 7th.

    That is not how we should be doing business in the U.S. Senate...

    http://obamaspeeches.com/092-Military-Commission-Legislation-Obama-Speech.htm

    (Some interesting thoughts about innocent people being "locked away forever" in this speech, too.)

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